Why pocketing the blanks appeals to a Scrabble cheat

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For the uninitiated the two blanks in Scrabble can be played as any letter.
That obviously makes them the most useful tiles, especially when looking to
play all seven tiles for a 50-point bonus. That may explain why this player,
who had 17 wins out of 23 when his deception was allegedly discovered, had
had a good run.

Contrast this with the occasion at the World Championships in Warsaw last
year: a player was accused by his opponent of pocketing a G when it was
discovered to be missing at the end of the game. Now, if you were to